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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "stephen raphael" <straph11@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:52:15 +0100
Subject: My Good Friend, Do You Get My Previous Mail To You?


>From The Desk Of;
Mr. Stephen Raphael.
BPI Bank Limited
Castle Road
P.O. C1778
Accra-Ghana
Tel:Fax: 00233-21-509021-2
bpighaltd@mail2ghana.com


Dear Friend,

I feel quite safe dealing with you in this business proposition having gone
through your remarkable profile on the( Internet) and have decided to
contact you with same message before now, but I'm in doubt if you are in
receipt of it. Though this medium I choose to reach you (Internet) have been
greatly abused by some dubious people, mostly from African continent but
still remain the fastest, surest and most secured medium of Communication
However, this correspondence is unofficial and private and it should be
treated as such. I also guarantee you that this deal is Hitch free from all
what you may think of. I promise you will have a cause to smile at last, as
there is this saying, that in every Original thing, there must be a Fake.

I am contacting you based on trust and confidentiality that will be attached
to this deal. The Management and the Legal department & Board of the
Directors of our BANK (BPI Bank Ghana Limited) in recent meeting held has
resolved that the Account of the Late customers MRS. ANGELA SUSAN
SCHEINBERG, whom I'm her Account Manager, should be declared to the
Government as "Unclaimed Fund" this is in accordance with Ghana Financial &
Banking Law. That is where there is no Next of Kin or any surviving
relatives to the deceased Customer but to be frank with you, my Manager and
his colleagues were planning to divert this Fund to their Overseas Bank
Account on their own Interest without my involvement as her Account
Manager.

MRS. SCHEINBERG, as we all know happens to be into Precious Mineral Merchant
here in Ghana, as she has been a regular visitor to Ghana for Gold
transaction before her death in World Trade Center as victims of the
September 11, 2001. The incident that befalls the United State of America,
the bank is still unrelenting in its bid to contact any of the relatives to
claim her deposited money. She is an account holder in our Bank; she had a
deposit of US$18.6M (Eighteen Million, Six Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars Only) in her Non-Resident Account with us.

It may interest you to note that till date the management and board of this
bank has not yet heard from any of her family member or relations till this
present day. This is where my interested ignited on and where I want you to
come in and stand in as the Relation/Next of Kin to the Deceased, I will
introduce you to her Attorney here in Ghana whom is well known by our
management, he will guide you through to the claims and for further
transmission of this fund to your choice Account.

I will provide all the vital documents covering the claims of the Fund and
will advice you on how we handle this transaction to completion. Please in
your prompt response include your telephone/fax number/ Home Address, while
further information will be made available to you once you indicate your
willingness to assist in championing this transaction. Note I will use good
office to get procure all Internal documentations to back up the claims .The
whole Procedures will last only 7 Bank working days to get the fund
retrieved and successfully transferred and without trace even in future.

After successful conclusion of this transaction, we shall share the Fund
60-40 while we pay off her Attorney for his assistance and service rendered.

Yours truly,
Stephen Raphael.
N/B. PLEASE, ONLY SEND ALL YOUR REPLY TO MY EMAIL HERE BELOW:
( bpighaltd@mail2ghana.com )

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